Update Thread 38: More of What You're Looking For

[Bob Schroeck]

I'm pretty sure I saw the recommendation here, so I just wanted to let folks know that Lady Archimedes, the sequel to The Arithmancer, got a new chapter a few days ago.

[Norgarth]

Heretical Edge regular update
https://ceruleanscrawling.wordpress.com/...lum-34-06/

EDIT:
Adorable Murderbeasts (Young Justice/Pokemon) has updated
https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/posts/10726641/
https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/47177494/

[Ebony]

Due to Real Life conspiring against me, I missed out on keeping up with The Gods Are Bastards. But, the latest chapter is highly worth while. Look here for Chapter 14: Themselves Contend. When the God of Bards calls all three existing paladins onto a quest, you know it's gonna be one hell of a story.[url=https://tiraas.wordpress.com/2018/04/20/14-1/][/url]

[Mamorien]

A contentious point of open debate among scholars of history and mythology revolves around the mythological origins of various dragon breed names.  While nearly all dragon breeds are co-opted into the dominant regional mythologies, like any animal present in their environment, the question is raised: which came first, the myth that became tied to a dragon, or a dragon whose popular name gave rise to a legend? 
Campe is likely an example of the first, as the breed migrated to the Aegean from the Red Sea during the Nontoku itsunengo (~AD 350) in response to human hunting.  The dragon, when seen in poor lighting conditions—such as in a cave by a panicked human carrying a torch—can very vaguely resemble the half-human half-reptilian description given by Nonnus in the Dionysiaca (albeit possessing only one head and only four legs), and was likely given the name in identification from the myth. 
Conversely, many breeds native to Iceland, Greenland, the Alban Isles and North-western Europa were named by the colonizing Norse and only later incorporated into their legends.  A prime example of this is the Night Fury (known to the native Celts as Bás Dorcha), which quickly gained the reputation of being the bastard offspring of Thor, god of Thunder, and Hel, goddess of Death.  In the Alban Isles, a new set of legends, unseen in the eastern Norse, grew over the course of the Early Heian Period (AD 800s and 900s), with elaborate stories being told of the divines' intimate encounter that resulted in the dragon breed.

But in 1042, Chōkyū-era Nippon, under the reign of Emperor Go-Suzaku, is not yet affected by the upheavals in Europa. For Queen Ruffnut and Trader Johann, things are coming together... but for kings both potential and deposed, The Center Cannot Hold...

https://archiveofourown.org/works/104089...s/34000358
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12639117/50...Of-Vikings

[Shepherd]

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11910907/25...-My-Weight
Pulling My Weight (Natuto).

[Norgarth]

Heretical Edge
https://ceruleanscrawling.wordpress.com/...lum-34-07/

DogbertCarrol has expanded another set of chapters from his Idea grabbag series into a full story

Priorities (Buffy with crossover elements) (6 chapters currently)
The zombie apocalypse has come, but with almost a full day's advance notice it's not as bad as it could be... or is it?
https://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-32709/do...rities.htm

[ECSNorway]

Apparently, Video Games Really Are Bad For Your Brain Chapter 21

In which budding genius sociopath, Fem!Kirito, discusses random nonsense with Argo, and the Black Cats appear on the scene.

[Shepherd]

https://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-28404-21...Xendra.htm
Xendra (Buffy/Xena).

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12044591/79/Forged-Destiny
Forged Destiny (RWBY RPG world).

[classicdrogn]

It was a couple weeks ago now, but dogbertcarrol's Storybook Hero got a seventh chapter. I'd be surprised if it turned out not to have been mentioned before, but I at least missed it, so here's a link.
https://m.fanfiction.net/s/7597067/7/Storybook-Hero

It's finally moved on to a new day! At this rate, it'll only be a few more years before they get to Hogwarts.

[Ebony]

The Gods Are Bastards, Chapter 14-9: https://tiraas.wordpress.com/2018/05/21/14-9/

Trissiny enforces a little religious discipline. An audience is held with a Higher Power. Gabriel opens his mouth (as usual).

[ECSNorway]

Devils of Aincrad, chapter 65: in which the peace conference gets underway.

[Shepherd]

https://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-32071-76...x+Mack.htm
The Secret Collocation of Alex Mack.

[Mamorien]

Remember a couple of chapters back in Subprime Directives, when Jade said she was sending Sarella Al ahead to open negotiations in Dorne? Mal's decided to show us how that went:

https://archiveofourown.org/works/119351...s/33986573
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12632190/15...Directives
https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/...t-47191238
https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/th...t-10729167

(Spoilers: interestingly.)

[Norgarth]

Heretical Edge
https://ceruleanscrawling.wordpress.com/...lum-34-08/

[Shepherd]

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/6557238/76/...eft-Unsaid
Better Left Unsaid (Naruto).

[nocarename]

https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/th...t-10766771
Tell the World That We Tried (BT CYOA)
Solaris champions are crazy.

[Norgarth]

Todeswind has posted the first chapter of Manifest Disaster the latest part of his Endless Pantheons (Stargate/Dresden Files) series

Manifest Disaster is the sequel to Shattering Occam's Razor (both of which are SG-1's POV)

There's also the Harry Dresden POV stories
God's Eye
God's Blood (ongoing)

and for other POVs there are
Letters from Home (non-SG-1 Earth stuff)
Visions of the Pantheon (various Goa'uld trying to make sense of recent events)

[Inquisitive Raven]

Actually, I'd say Letters From Home is more accurately characterized as human side character stuff. The last chapter, that I read anyway, was about Amun, Harry's Lo'taur.

[Mamorien]

Furthermore, the legally mandated food and housing welfare requirements for all members of Berk's holdings—a holdover from the days of the Dragon War, when a surprise dragon raid could put any of the Hooligans out of house and livelihood—helped significantly with accelerating the rate of social, cultural and economic growth. 
The end result of the pattern of absorption was that, by the mid-1050s AD, Eire was politically and socially unified, integrated and enfranchised under Berk's auspices as a province of the newly created North Sea Empire.  With the second-highest per-capita productivity in the Empire, Gaoidhealg forming one of the initial core Imperial languages, and their voting block resolutely backing and supporting Hiccup Haddock in the Grand Thing, the actions of the Eirish had, and continued to have, an indelible impact on the society, culture, economy and political life of the Empire…
…This is not to say that all went smoothly, especially at first, before the pattern had established itself.  The Hooligans took significant time to formulate specific policies and end goals in regards to Eire, and there was also staunch resistance due to the fact that Eire had been a formalized caste-based inequitable society, and had no cultural experience with the Hooligans' more egalitarian traditions.  In contrast, the Norse-Gael towns that dotted the coast of the island were easier to acculturate, as they already had the cultural traditions of the proto-democratic Viking Thing and the social closure effect of the holmgang.
Further complicating matters were the long-entrenched conflicts between the native Eirish and the Vikings, and the religious differences between the Norse Hooligans and the Christian Eirish. As the Eirish had no experience nor expectation of actual intent of peace from Vikings, and no worldview that would allow them to see the act of dragon-riding as anything other than witchcraft or devil-worship, it was an uphill struggle for the Hooligans to convince the Eirish of their peaceful intent, much less politically and socially integrate the island's populace—not helped by the necessity of self-defense against preemptive attacks. 

Right at the start of this week's A Thing of Vikings, we see that particular pattern play out in Mumhan. In the aftermath, we get an interesting perspective on the causes of Ragnarok, plus further developments in Constantinople and other places, any of which could be the pivot by which Mere Anarchy is Loosed Upon the World:

https://archiveofourown.org/works/104089...s/34158708
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12639117/51...Of-Vikings

[Shepherd]

https://www.fictionpress.com/s/2961893/8...f-Learning
Mother of Learning (Fantasy time loops).

[Norgarth]

Heretical Edge
https://ceruleanscrawling.wordpress.com/...lum-34-09/

[Shepherd]

https://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-28404-21...Xendra.htm
Xendra (Buffy/Xena).

[classicdrogn]

I am a Girl in the Dungeon? has updated, and.... well, after the last chapter I've basically reset the Quality Counter to decide if I'm going to keep reading as if it was a new fic, but this first new part is a decent transition piece. I still think the trauma previously inflicted was taking it too far for believability, but that's why I'm treating it like a new AU branch where things didn't go quite so gruesomely.

https://m.fanfiction.net/s/12692133/50/I...he-dungeon

[ECSNorway]

Dogbertcarroll updated "A Sunny Day in DC" with Chapter 8.

(Xander Harris in DC Comics 'verse)

[Shepherd]

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11418526/62...our-Heroes
Kill Your Heroes (Naruto).